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As part of our series on creating a low maintenance garden we thought it a good idea to see how you can grow a low maintenance hedge. Ah hedges, us Brits love hedges! There are millions of miles of hedging in our gardens, some more lovingly maintained than others and some are works of art in their own right. We trim them, straighten

Paths – we’ve all got them Top tips for reducing the amount of time on unwanted garden chores! We all have paths in our gardens, but the choice of the type of path to use can really affect how much time you have to spend on unwanted chores and tidying up. So what advice and tips are there for ensuring the

How to actually create one! We all love the idea of having a low maintenance garden, it conjures an image of lazy summer days spent in your garden watching the bees buzzing and you just relaxing. The reality though, generally involves you spending far too much time on mowing the grass, trimming the edges, weeding paths and taming the triffids! But with a

What is a Low Maintenance Garden and how can I have one? We would all love to have a beautiful but low maintenance garden, but what do we really mean by the phrase ‘low maintenance garden’? Reducing the amount of time spent on unwanted chores in the garden is always desirable, but really low maintenance gardens take a lot of

Why help hedgehogs? Despite the fact they adorably cute and have been on this planet for about 20 million years, we’ve lost a third of our hedgehogs over the last 10 years. It seems likely from long-running surveys that there are fewer than a million hedgehogs left in the UK. If that isn’t reason enough, hedgehogs actually play

How ‘Green’ are Bedding Plants? A strange title you may be thinking, of course bedding plants are green – they’re plants and all the plants we put in our gardens must be good for the environment surely? In the UK nearly £1bn is spent on bedding plants each year – that’s a lot of money and an awful

Who are flowers for? Flowers are for us to admire – right? Well absolutely yes they are, but flowers aren’t just for us, many of today’s modern blooms however are created primarily to please the human eye – but are we forgetting who flowers are really for? Let’s take you back a few hundreds of millions of

“If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.” Albert Einstein That’s a scary statement – but it’s pretty much true. So we really need to help maintain the bee populations globally.

Tips for Small Garden Design: Bins. Bins, we all have them, but in a small garden how can you spend time enjoying your garden without the wheelie bins on show! Not the prettiest sight are they, but you can hide them. However rather than thinking of simply hiding the bins….think of something to look at that will ALSO hide the

Small Garden Design: Don’t stuff your narrow bits with clutter! Alleyways and narrow gardens are always a little tricky to garden. Two reasons, they are narrow, so too much stuff and it looks cluttered and usually they are in deep shade so don’t see much sun or rain for that matter. So what to do. Take this drawing of a